Synonyms for night
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1. nightnoun

   Synonyms:
   sundown, obscurity, sunset, twilight, shadow, gloom, dark, nightfall, blackness, evening, dusk, darkness, sleep

   Antonyms:
   light, day, brightness, daylight

2. nightnoun

   The goddess of the night in Heathenry.

   Night all! Thanks for a great evening!

   Synonyms:
   sundown, shadow, darkness, dark, twilight, evening, blackness, sunset, gloom, sleep, dusk, nightfall, obscurity

   Antonyms:
   light, brightness, day, daylight

3. nightnoun

   An evening or night spent at a particular activity.

   a night on the town

   Synonyms:
   twilight, dusk, obscurity, shadow, sleep, darkness, nightfall, evening, sunset, gloom, blackness, sundown, dark

   Antonyms:
   light, brightness, daylight, day

4. nightnoun

   A night (and part of the days before and after it) spent in a hotel or other accommodation.

   We stayed at the Hilton for five nights.

   Synonyms:
   shadow, gloom, darkness, obscurity, twilight, nightfall, blackness, sleep, dark, sundown, sunset, evening, dusk

   Antonyms:
   brightness, daylight, light, day

5. nightnoun

   Nightfall.

   from noon ‘til night

   Synonyms:
   shadow, evening, gloom, sleep, sundown, dark, nightfall, darkness, obscurity, twilight, dusk, blackness, sunset

   Antonyms:
   daylight, light, brightness, day

6. nightnoun

   Darkness.

   The cat disappeared into the night.

   Synonyms:
   sleep, dark, blackness, sunset, gloom, evening, obscurity, nightfall, darkness, shadow, sundown, dusk, twilight

   Antonyms:
   brightness, day, light, daylight

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1. night, nighttime, darknoun

   the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside

   Synonyms:
   wickedness, nighttime, darkness, iniquity, dark, shadow

   Antonyms:
   day, daytime, daylight

2. nightnoun

   a period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom

   Synonyms:
   nighttime, dark

   Antonyms:
   daytime, daylight, day

3. nightnoun

   the period spent sleeping

   "I had a restless night"

   Synonyms:
   nighttime, dark

   Antonyms:
   daylight, daytime, day

4. nightnoun

   the dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit

   "three nights later he collapsed"

   Synonyms:
   nighttime, dark

   Antonyms:
   daytime, day, daylight

5. nightnoun

   darkness

   "it vanished into the night"

   Synonyms:
   nighttime, dark

   Antonyms:
   daytime, daylight, day

6. nightnoun

   a shortening of nightfall

   "they worked from morning to night"

   Synonyms:
   nighttime, dark

   Antonyms:
   daylight, day, daytime

7. nightnoun

   the time between sunset and midnight

   "he watched television every night"

   Synonyms:
   nighttime, dark

   Antonyms:
   day, daytime, daylight

8. Nox, Nightnoun

   Roman goddess of night; daughter of Erebus; counterpart of Greek Nyx

   Synonyms:
   nighttime, dark

   Antonyms:
   daytime, daylight, day

Matched Categories

1. • Roman Deity
   • Darkness
   • Time Period
   • Time Unit
   • Twilight

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1. purple sky

   the time after dusk

   the stars sparked in the purple sky.

   Submitted by anonymous on June 2, 2021  

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. nightnoun

   Synonyms:
   darkness

   Associated words:
   nocturnal, noctuary, noctidial, noctilucous, belated, benight, benighted, noctivagant, noctivagation, noctivagous, nocturne, noctiflorous pernoctalian, pernoctation, lychnobite

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1. List of paraphrases for "night":

   evening, tonight, overnight, nocturnal, nuit, dark, nighttime, soir, nightly, noche, late, noctiluca, nigght, night-time, nights, nightfall, nocturne, pm, sleepwear, laila, nlght, p.m., all-nighter, interferes, darkness, sleep, blackness

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1. Dag Hammarskjld:

   .....if you're driving down the highway in the middle of the night and you see a sign that says Bridge Out, pray for some intellectual understanding of that message, or you're going to have an experience you'll never forget

2. Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter:

   It is amazing, i saw some people last night literally walking off that train. I don't know how they did it.

3. Bruce Boudreau:

   I liked the compete, i thought we were much better than the other night, for sure. Anytime you can limit that team to 21 shots( on goal), I think we’ve done a good job. But at the same time, we had opportunities.

4. Adam Schiff:

   CBS News reported last night that a Trump confidante said that GOP senators were warned: vote against your president ... and your head will be on a pike, i hope it's not true. But I was struck by the irony of the idea, when we're talking about a president who would make himself a monarch, that whoever that was would use the terminology of a penalty that was imposed by a monarch, a head on a pike.

5. Jean Baudrillard:

   The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert, and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them the mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night.